[Feiny]

Then play a CD...or listen to a station that has paid ads.

[GOPJ]

NPR lies about not having advertisers? They're dumping classical music for nonstop liberal propaganda? And on my dime? Damn.

According to their conventional wisdom--though whether it's wisdom or merely convention has yet to be determined--news and chat inevitably bring in more listeners, and more affluent listeners, than classical music or jazz. And affluent listeners draw higher-class advertisers (called "underwriters" in the painstaking lexicon of public broadcasting) and respond more generously during pledge drives.